Adjustable wagon-rack.



No. 764,276. PATENTED JULY 5, 1904. E. D. mcxmson. ADJUSTABLE WAGON RAcK.

APPLIOATION rILnn mAn. 10. 1904.

no MODEL.

Patented July 5, 1904,

PATENT OFFICE.

ELM'ER D. DICKINSON, OF STOCKBRIDGE, MICHIGAN.

ADJUSTABLE WAGON-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,276, dated July 5, 1904.

Application filed March 10, 1904. Serial No. 197,561. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELMER D. DIeKINsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stockbridge, in the county of Ingham and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable I/Vagon- Racks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to new and useful improvements in adjustable wagon-racks; and it consists particularly in the construction of the wagon-irons and adjustable bracket, whereby the bracket or rack may be adjusted to different inclines in relation to the wagon-body and be locked in its adjusted positions.

The invention further consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical central section through a portion of the wagonbody, showing the iron secured thereto and showing in full and dotted lines the diiierent positions of the bracket or rack. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of the bracket, and Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the wagon-iron.

A represents the wagon-body of ordinary construction, 13 the bottom boards thereof, and C the cross-bars upon which the bottom boards are supported. These may be of any ordinary construction, and my device is intended to be applied thereto.

C is the wagon-iron, of suitable shape and size to fit on the outside of the side of the wagon-box and secured thereto as, for instance, by bolts a through the sides of the wagon-box and by bolts 7) through the ends of the cross-bars (1, which project shortly be yond the outer sides of the wagon-box. In the upper end of this wagon-iron 1 form a segmental socket D, in which a tongue E of the bracket F is adapted to project and iit snugly therein to prevent side motion. The

tongue E has at its inner end a locking-lug c and also hason its outer face a series of bearings (Z, a, and It, which are adapted to engage with the fulcrum-block Gr, which extends between the two side plates H across the socket D. On the inner face of the socket member I form three locking-notches I, I, and l.

J is a locking projection or lug on the inner face of the bracket F at the upper end of the tongue E.

It will be obviously understood, of course, that the brackets F have secured to their in nor face the ordinary rack bars or boards K, forming the usual side racks for the wagon, there being any number of wagon-irons or brackets desired or necessary, according to the length of the wagon to which the invention is applied.

The parts being thus constructed, their operation is as follows: When the device is to be used as a stock-rack, the operator takes one of the side racks, which includes the rack-bars K and the attached brackets, and engages the tongues E of the brackets in the sockets D in the wagon-irons in a substantially vertical position, so that the lower end of the tongue will project between the fulcrum-block (x and the inner wall of the socket, tilting the brackets slightly inward at their upper ends in the inserting movement and guiding the locking projections .I into the notches L on the upper face of the wagon-irons. As soon as the projoctions .I enter the notches L the device is pushed down into the position shown in fulllines in Fig. 1, in which position the locking-lug con the tongue E is engaged in the locking-notch I in the front wall of the socket, and the locking projection J is engaged in the notch L. The lug c is maintained in the locking-notch I by the bearing (Z on the outer face of the tongue, as plainly shown in full linesin Fig. 1.

When it is desired to use the device as a hayrack, the tongues of the bracket are inserted into the socket l) in an inclined position approaching the horizontal, and the locking-lug c is engaged into the locking-notch I at the upper end of the inner wall of the socket, while the bearing /r. is engaged over the fulcrum- -block G, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

The brackets and rack may be ad jnsted to the intermediate position by engaging the locking-lug c with the locking-notch I, in which position the bearings (1 rest on the fulcrum-block (Jr, as shown in the middle dotted position in Fig. l.

The lower face of the socket D, I form with the incline M, so that any water or dirt that falls therein when the bracket is removed from the wagon-iron will readily run out and the socket may be more readily cleaned.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a wagon-rack, the combination of the wagon-iron having a socket, a series of locking-notches at the inner face of the socket, a bracket to which the rack-bars are adapted to be secured, a tongue on the bracket adapted to fit in the socket, a locking-lug on the tongue adapted to engage with the locking-recesses, a fulcrum-block in the outer portion of the socket, and bearings on the rear of the tongue adapted to engage with the fulcrum-block.

2. In a Wagon-rack, the combination of the wagon-iron having side plates between which is formed a vertical socket, a series of locking-notches on the inner Wall thereof, and a vertical notch at the top, a bracket, a tongue at the lower end of the bracket to fit in the socket, a locking-lug c at the end ofthe tongue, the lug J at the upper end of the tongue adapted to engage the notch, the fulcrum -block Gr between the side plates in the socket, and notches on the rear of the tongue to engage said block.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ELMERD. DICKINSON itnesses:

H. C. SMITH, JAs. P. BARRY. 

